MENTORING HIGHLIGHTS

Mentoring Nature and Scope

Helping others achieve their long term goals

Helping people plot out their career paths with the right scale and/or skills
Sharing knowledge and Experiences relevant to the defined 2-3 goals of the
mentee

Steps:
1. Agree on the process:
a) When and how often to have the mentoring
b) What topics to cover in line with the defined goals
c) Communication channels face to face, email, Skype, etc
2. Allow the mentee to define 2-3 life goals clearly to be achieved in a definite
length of time - 1 yr, 2 yr, 3yr or more. Mentees usually have very many
goals. Help them reduce the goals to a manageable number (2 to 3).
3. Focus on the skills, experiences, and the milestones one has to develop in
order to achieve the defined goals. Map out on a calendar to show what has
to be achieved by what date.
4. Let the mentee identify her current Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and
Threats (obstacles) regarding the process of achieving the defined goals
5. Give the mentee some assignment on step 4.
6. *Design a fill in form to capture the desired feedback in steps 3 and
4.
7. Learn the names of the mentee and show them that you are concerned about
their goals. Even just finding out how theyre progressing on with their goals
on a day to day basis is comforting enough for them.
8. Besides sharing experience stories and knowledge about the goals, probe the
mentee with questions. This will give you chance to listen to their stories and
at the same time to give them a chance to speak.
Example Probing question:
a) Have you had or heard about a similar experience to the one I have
shared with you?
b) What strategy do you think are necessary to achieve the defined
goals?
c) What do you think are the resources needed to move towards the
desired goals?
d) What are the implications of taking certain steps (Be specific)? Let
them tell you what they know.
* Design a form in which the mentee can fill in a feedback on
your probing questions.
9. Make or suggest useful connections for additional help on issues handled or
other issues you may not be in position to handle. For example you can
suggest to them to join certain groups you are sure are developmental.
10.Be frank! Be authentic! You need to give feedback even when it is a difficult
one. Tell them when they need to hear something developmental. Make
comments on what they already think will work for them.

11.Recall how you used to think at the age and situation similar to that of the
mentee. Build on the lessons you learnt.
12.Do a monitoring and evaluation to see whether the mentee is making
progress.

Mentee Information
Your name: _______________________________________________________
Class and Stream ________________________ Subjects Combination ___________________
What are you hoping to get out of the mentoring program? What would you like to
see happen as a
result of the program? Please journal your thoughts and ideas here in your own
words.
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TERMS
Philosophy The sum total of all you know and what you decide is valuable.
Attitude How you feel about what you know.
Activity What we do. This is the labor, the work part.
ResultsWhat you achieved. Measure it! How are you doing? Are you moving toward your
goals?
Lifestyle Take your results and fashion yourself a good life.
CHALLENGES
Challenges are Tough
Yes, challenges are tough. If they werent tough, they wouldnt be called challenges. But think back
over your life thus far. You may not be exactly where you want to be right now or where you
imagined you would be at this point in your life, but youve already overcome many challenges to get
where you are today.
List three challenges you have already overcome in your life:

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Build on Past Successes
How did you overcome these challenges? What skills or attributes did you use to overcome each
one? (Be as specific as you can.)
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2. ______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
What was the hardest part of overcoming these challenges? Journal your thoughts about that here.
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Your Future Starts Today
Now think about some of your wishes, dreams, or goals for the future. What are some
challenges that loom in front of you now challenges you will need to overcome to
succeed and live the life you would truly like? For the purpose of this exercise, just list
three.
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2. _____________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________
Why do these challenges seem so tough? Write down your thoughts about what it will take to
overcome these specific challenges.
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Now were not going to solve all of these challenges just this fast. But lets take another look at each
of those challenges and lets make things easy for now. What is one small, easy thing you could do
that would bring you one step closer to overcoming each of these challenges? List them herejust
one small, easy thing to advance you a step closer.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
Commit to Taking Action
Now heres the critical thing: if you know that this one little thing in each of these three areas can
help you begin to overcome these challenges in even some very tiny way and bring you a step closer
to living the life you want to life, why arent you doing it? Its easy, right? So commit to doing it!
And do it.
Right here. Right now. On this page, take an action. Write down your commitment to do these
three easy things. Commit to doing them regularly, with discipline. Then write down how often you
are going to measure your results in this area. How often will you check to see how youre doing?
Of course, you need to go into this with an enthusiastic attitude. Remind yourself, Hey, Im starting
down the path to success already! This is easy. Just a bunch of easy, little things that will grow
bigger. And make up your mind that even though you havent achieved your goals yet, youre on
your way, and thats a great start. Be happy about that! Now do it. Write your commitment to
yourself in the space provided.